as [Alex] Lemon is the author of three books of poetry--Mosquito (Tin House Books, 2006) and Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions, 2008), and Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions, 2010). Lemon's at his best when evoking his hypersensitized, confused state--his "insides rubberband"; he's "swallowing [himself] alive"; he feels "like a woodshop is working inside" him. His world is no ordinary world but one experienced through a poet's sensibility: the spring air is "steamed milk and metal"; the night, "splintered, a handful of oil"; the ocean has a "raw-potato smell"; his mother's worry is "a tire-fire in the small room"; "the days . . . have turned into a line of burning gunpowder."from Powells: Review-A-Day: The Other Sides of Happy
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